On-dryslíc

Old English Dictionary Entry

On-dryslíc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -drystlíc, -ðyrstlíc, -deslíc; Related words: following words. on-dryslic

Definitions

1 on-dryslíc

adj. Terrible, dreadful :-- Ús is tó geþencanne hú onþrislíc (-dryslíc : egeslíc, other MS.) hit on bócum gecweden is, L. Ath. i. prm. ; Th. i. 196, 4. Cwæð ðæt se mon wǽre ondrysenlíc (onderslíc, MS. T. : ondrislíc, MS. B.) on tó seónne (terribilis aspectu), Bd. 2, 16; S. 519, 35. Ondeslíc terribilis, Rtl. 69, 4 : orror (?), 162, 28. Ácwellan ondryslícum wítum, Shrn. 111, l0. Þreágan mid ondrystlícum wítum, 104, 16. Gif hwilc mon síe on ondyrstlecum wísum (in dreadful straits), and hé sý mínes naman gemyndig, Drihten, gefriða ðú hine from ðæm brógan, 101, 30. Sum sume swíðe ondryslícu (tremenda) secgende wæs, Bd. 5, 12 tit. ; S. 627, 3.

Runic Inscription

ᚩᚾ-ᛞᚱᚣᛋᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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